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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala endorsed for World Bank top job
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala PHOTO/Ramin Talaie/EPA
A group of former World Bank officials today endorsed Africa’s candidate to lead the Bank, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
In an open letter, 39 former managers and economists called on the Bank’s executive board to make their decision on merit, when the board considers more than one candidate for the job for the first time.
“We believe that Mrs Okonjo-Iweala has outstanding qualifications across the full range of relevant criteria,” they said.
Mrs Okonjo-Iweala, a former World Bank managing director, and Jose Antonio Ocampo, a former finance minister of Colombia, are competing with the US nominee Jim Yong Kim, a public health expert and president of Dartmouth College.
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